CVE-2026-16895 (GCVE-0-2026-16895)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-08-27 03:14
Modified
2026-08-27 13:09
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VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-305 - Authentication bypass by primary weakness
Summary
A logic vulnerability (fail-open condition) has been identified within the Metasploit Framework's JSON-RPC web service interface. When an exception occurs during the database health check (db.check) and the environment variable MSF_WS_JSON_RPC_API_TOKEN is not explicitly set, the application resets the internal state flag msf.auth_initialized to false. The ApiToken Warden authentication strategy misinterprets this false value as an indicator that authentication is not initialized or required, thereby granting unauthenticated local access to the JSON-RPC request dispatcher.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rapid7 | Metasploit-framework |
Version: 0 < 6.5.2 |
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